Tuesday, 29 July 2014

As much as I’m sad for the circumstances Iraq and Iraqis are going
through, but I feel much better after hearing the news about the slap that
Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq’s Kurdish region, got today.The slap came from the U.S. Magistrate
Judge Nancy Johnson of Galveston when issued an order for the seizure of more
than $100 million of oil produced and shipped illegally by Iraq’s Kurds despite
the central government objection, according to Bloomberg.“This seems to be a legally charged issue at this point, and the
last thing I want to do is get embroiled in some massive political dispute and
have our name dragged through the mud,” Simon Duncan, the president of the
Houston-based SPT company that was supposed to unload crude oil from the United
Kalavrvta tanker, told the energy industry blog Fuel Fix.As I was following the news, the picture of the Kurdish Prime
Minister, Nechervan Barzani, came before my eyes when he was addressing the
regional parliament earlier, like a peacock, to explain May decision to start
exporting crude oil solely with the help of Turkey.Barzani told the Kurdish lawmakers that the decision meant to tell
Baghdad that they can sell oil in the international marker solely after a
Baghdad official told him: “Kaka, selling oil isn’t like selling tomato and
cucumber."Isn’t now clear that selling oil
harder than selling tomato and cucumber Kaka?

“We called it our Berlin Wall,” said Saad Khalef, 41, told The NYT on March 6 story as he surveyed the newly uncovered ground where the walls had stood, as crushed and pale as the skin beneath a bandage. “Now we can breathe easy. Yesterday, I felt a breeze coming through, I swear to God.”The NYT's Anthony Shadid in a piece on Jan. 6, 2011 two days after Muqtada Al-Sadr's return from nearly four-year self-imposed exile in Iraq: In 2004, an American spokesman in Baghdad called Mr. Sadr “a two-bit thug.” On Wednesday, the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, called him “the leader of an Iraqi political party that won a number of seats in the March 2010 election.”